Sunshine

Viděno během Challenge Tour - Filmový lov: Úkol číslo 23 - Film, který se odehrává ve vesmíru. Film como este, hecho para las salas de cine, debió de ser un verdadero festín visual. No entiendo cómo pude ser tan estúpido y no ir al cine a ver esta impresionante y cautivadora película hace ocho años. Ahora solo puedo lamentarlo. Pero incluso en la comodidad de mi hogar, supe apreciar adecuadamente las orgías visuales de Boyle. En los últimos días, vi Sunshine por segunda vez y, a diferencia del viaje psicodélico de Trans, me alegró como una obra de ciencia ficción de calidad y bien elaborada. Se puede especular sobre la última media hora, pero respeto la decisión de los creadores. (08.06.2015)

Demasiado bajo presupuesto, parlanchina e interior para ser una ciencia ficción convencional y demasiado poco imaginativa y tópica una la comedia dramática inteligente. No sabemos prácticamente nada de los personajes, hemos visto casi todos los giros argumentales en otros lugares, visualmente austera, una clase por debajo de Horizonte final. Odio decirlo, pero incluso con la estúpida película El núcleo me divertí más. Danny, no inventes mierda y haz por fin la PORNO (la secuela anunciada de) Trainspotting para los no iniciados). (14.03.2007)

What exactly is Boyle's Sunshine? A visual space essay? A realistic drama from space? A disaster film? A survival horror? Maybe all of the above mashed together. The first part of the film skillfully depicts the atmosphere of a spaceship rushing towards a task of fatal importance, relationships between the crew, a thickening atmosphere, moral dilemmas and exciting episodes from the life of an astronaut. In some respects, Boyle seems to be trying to achieve a hi-tech version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, whilst maintaining his classic directorial attributes. Awkward editing. Expressive acting in detail. Distinctive soundtrack. Surprisingly, this part not bound to the plot works very nicely, the artistic aspect is perfect, the atmosphere is absorbing and some of the sequences (repair of damaged panels) have well-escalated tension. The combination of raw drama, spectacular visuals and a bit of thought creates a captivating whole... but unfortunately, in about the middle of the runtime, the film finds itself asking the cardinal question... what's next? They are far from the Sun, layering problems on the storyline... and so Sunshine turns into a very cheap pseudo-horror-action murder film, in which annoying overacting, confused editing (which absolutely loses order from the beginning of the film) and Emmental logic play a role. Therefore, instead of gaining in attractiveness, Sunshine loses it considerably and becomes an unbearably excessive collage of disparate images and self-serving scenes. The ending, which would have been significant in other circumstances, fizzles out. For me, when I left the movie theatre, I felt that the film was technically excellent, but the sci-fi storyline was completely shrunken. It is intelligent in the first part, but alarmingly idiotic in the second. It's like stardust. You touch it and the shape shatters into small particles. It’s too bad. Three points for the great atmosphere of the introduction, the artistic design and a very nice soundtrack. Yes, the comparison with Event Horizon is on point. Including the way in which the film can turn from a lively to a silly one, unfortunately. (12.04.2007)

Never mind that according to the scholarly press, Sunshine is science fiction with the most scientific and technical nonsense in years, because Danny Boyle's extremely evocative direction trumps every plot misstep. Whether it's the scene of adjusting the solar filter, repairing the protective panels, or the impressive flyover of Mercury silhouetted against the backdrop of a hot solar disc, Boyle has managed to awaken in me what I last experienced with Zemeckis' Contact: a fascination with space. And surprisingly, even the killer "zombie" at the end, whose existence in the film is so criticized, didn't bother me at all. On the contrary, with his "role" as a self-proclaimed god, he gave the film a tantalizing mysterious dimension. A must see if possible in the cinema, this is an audiovisual juggernaut designed for the big screen. (05.09.2007)

Out comes the sun and dries up all the rain... If it weren’t for the needless screenwriter excess toward the end, Sunshine would have been a very good and intelligent catastrophe sci-fi picture. This way it remains “just" in the very good picture category. That excess is all the more disappointing because due to it the movie undergoes a pointless and demeaning complete change of genre for about ten minutes; such a good screenplay deserved a better idea. Boyle played around a lot with the visuals and it is really surprising to see just how many shades of yellow exist. The soundtrack is rather unusual, but the ambient harmonies of Underworld complements the overall atmosphere curiously well. Sunshine could have easily slipped into a deluge of pathos, heroic speeches and lots of clichés... But it didn’t and, thanks to it focusing on the excellently played characters, it remained teetering on the edge of intelligent popcorn movie cut with a picture with greater reach i the style of A Space Odyssey. And that’s really good. ♫ OST score: 4/5 (20.04.2007)